• Proposal 6: “Naturopaths, Homeopathic practitioners and Herbalists, who are not registered with National Registration Accreditation Scheme (NRAS) would be regulated in the same way as advertising to the general public”

In structuring a response to Proposal 5 & 6, the points that need to be considered include:
– the status quo is maintained, no changes implemented, total opposition to the reforms
– that the whole industry needs a consistent and unified response
– is the TGA using the guise of Advertising Codes and Public Safety as a stepping stone to degrade and diminish the industry
– if a Uniformed Accreditation Registration is not implemented, the TGA will extend the impact of treating you as “general public” which will have significant implications to your profession and to our industry

What can you do? CALL TO ACTION:

1. Read the full Consultation Paper

2. Contact your Association to get them heavily involved to ensure they respond by July 12th

Please consider:
– formulate your response based around “Public Safety”
– communicate with passion, commitment, professionalism and clarity
– suggest you offer any financial burden that could be realised by any changes

4. Contact your patients to offer their feedback directly to the TGA
Formulate their response around :
– their reliance on Complementary Medicine (CM) practitioners for their health and wellbeing
– their impressions of the industry
– their reliance on CM practitioners to be up to date in their knowledge
– contact their local Federal Member to issue their opposition

5. Use your Social Media to raise the attention

6. It has been suggested that a Template style response is not as powerful as a personalised response

7. This is a political issue, so high numbers of responses will gain their ATTENTION

It was very pleasing to see the industry working together positively.
We trust that this information has been of value. We will endeavor to keep you updated through this process.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 July 2013 16:51